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Patrick Ness’s series will debut sometime this year. Doctor Who’s new spinoff series has found a home in the States. During a press tour in Los Angeles this week, it was announced that Class will air on BBC America sometime this year. Class hails from author Patrick Ness and will be set at Coal Hill School – a recurring feature in both new and classic Doctor Who. Many of the Doctor’s companions have worked at the school, including Ian Chesterton,…

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The 8th Doctor, Paul McGann, hasn’t ruled out more live-action Doctor Who, as long as it’s “a little bit every now and then”… Despite his prolific and often terrific audio appearances in the role, Paul McGann’s Doctor has only been seen on screen in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie and 2013’s delightful mini-episode The Night Of The Doctor. But will he ever appear in live-action form again? Mr McGann himself, it seems, is rather keen on he idea… “I…

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Who knew something some magical could result from a simple Happy Birthday to Who! Peter Capaldi is no stranger to doing nice things from his fans (he made one ill Whovian’s day when he visited him in hospital in character last year) but his latest offering to loyal followers of the show is particularly sweet. YouTuber Beth Axford and a group of more than 50 Doctor Who fans rallied together to send Capaldi a Happy Birthday video for his 57th…

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From today, you are able to vote for your favourite television programmes in the annual “National Television Awards“. Once again, Doctor Who has made it onto the short list and we would urge all of our readers to vote for Doctor Who in the best drama category. For the first time this year, The Gallifreyan Newsroom will be attending the awards ceremony, which will be broadcasted live from London’s O2 arena on ITV, Wednesday 20th January 2016. Let’s make it…

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Endeavour’s D.I. Fred Thursday wouldn’t mind switching sides to take on The Doctor. He’s probably best known to TV viewers as Endeavour Morse’s boss and man of the law D.I. Fred Thursday but Roger Allam wouldn’t mind finding himself on the wrong side of the law if he was in an episode of Doctor Who. The actor, who admits he was “one of those children who’d hide when Doctor Who started”, would love to get his teeth into a nasty…

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Remembering those who contributed to the Doctor Who universe and who sadly passed away in 2015 by Toby Hadoke  

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song, had an official rating of 7.69 million viewers. The final rating includes those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It is an increase of nearly 2 million on the initially reported figure. Christmas Day saw some impressive timeshift figures. The top programme of the week was the final episode of ITV’s Downton Abbey, which increased its audience by four million to finish with an official audience of 10.92 million. A…

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